PBI-Honduras meets with Women’s Movement for Peace ‘Visitación Padilla’ to discuss Purple Alert Law on missing women

PBI-Honduras has posted: “We recently met with the Women’s Movement for Peace ‘Visitación Padilla’ (Las Chonas HN). They shared with us about the proposed ‘Purple Alert Law for Disappeared Women’, submitted to the National Congress for approval. This has been worked on by different feminist organizations, including Visitación Padilla, and Read more…

21 Canadian companies implicated in 88 attacks against human rights defenders over the past nine years

Photo: Several land and territory defenders in the community of Azacualpa, Honduras, were arbitrarily detained on May 11, 2019, when protesting the mining company Minerales de Occidente, a subsidiary of Aura Minerals. A preliminary review of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRCC) database finds that 21 Canadian companies Read more…

PBI-Mexico accompanies the 4th Consultation Forum in Sonora for the Strengthening of Protection for Human Rights Defenders and Journalists

PBI-Mexico has posted: “Last Saturday [July 6] we were accompanying the 4th Consultation Forum in Sonora for the Strengthening of the Protection of Defenders of #HumanRights and Journalists organized by the @IniSinaloa [Initiative Sinaloa, a non-profit civil organization that works in defence of human rights].” Iniciativa Sinaloa also posted:”4th Consultation Read more…

Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor Virginia Laparra sentenced to five years in prison

LaHora now reports: “The former head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI) in Quetzaltenango, Virginia Laparra, was convicted of the crime of disclosure of confidential or reserved information to a sentence of 5 years in prison commutable at the rate of Q5 per day and a fine of Read more…

Gitanyow and Gitxsan concerned about RCMP C-IRG violence, construction of PRGT pipeline to begin on August 24

APTN Video: The C-IRG on Gitxsan territory, November 2021. Construction on the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline is now scheduled to begin on Saturday August 24. The 800-kilometre pipeline would carry fracked gas from Hudson’s Hope in northeastern British Columbia across Gitanyow and Gitxsan territory to the Ksi Lisims Read more…

The Municipal Committee in Defense of Common and Public Goods of Tocoa file complaint against Mayor and councillors

Image from Guapinol Resiste website. On July 1, Criterio.hn reported: “Due to indications of crimes linked to corruption in the public administration of Tocoa [a city of 63,320 people in the department of Colón] during the convocation and development of the town hall on June 13, members of the Municipal Read more…

PBI-Mexico accompanied relatives of Edmundo Reyes and Gabriel Cruz demand progress at 12th meeting of search commission in Mexico City

On July 3, the Cerezo Committee posted: “Nadin Reyes Amaya, family member of Edmundo Reyes Amaya, announces the upcoming arrival of family members, human rights organizations, lawyers, social and political organizations, OHCHR [Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights], Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project for the 12th meeting Read more…

PBI-Guatemala demands justice for Virginia Laparra who could be sentenced to 6 years in prison on July 8

“The case is a revenge to guarantee impunity” PBI-Guatemala has posted: #VirginiaLaparra’s fight for a fairer Guatemala is a light in the midst of darkness and corruption. We demand #JusticeForVirginia #NoMoreCrime Prensa Libre reports: “Next Monday, July 8, Judge Moisés de León will issue the resolution against the former head Read more…

PBI-Colombia accompanies CAHUCOPANA at #DefendamosLaVida meetings with the European Union in Colombia

Photo: Carlos Arturo Morales Mallorga of CAHUCOPANA with members of the PBI-Colombia team and others in Bogota, July 2. On July 1, Peace Brigades International-Colombia, Race and Equality, Protection international, the International Office of Human Rights Action Colombia (OIDHACO), and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) expressed appreciation that the Read more…

PBI-Honduras marks June 28, Pride Day and the 15th anniversary of the coup and the murder of trans rights defender Vicky Hernandez

PBI-Honduras has posted: “Today [June 28], we celebrate International LGTBI+ Pride Day and commemorate the 2009 coup d’état. We also commemorate the life of trans advocate Vicky Hernandez: she was assassinated exactly 15 years ago, on the same day of the coup. Since the coup, LGTBI+ organizations have registered a Read more…